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ZeroCool@feddit.ch to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish ·
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Signal tests usernames that keep your phone number private

www.bleepingcomputer.com

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Signal tests usernames that keep your phone number private

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ZeroCool@feddit.ch to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish ·
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Signal is now testing public usernames that allow users to conceal the phone numbers linked to their accounts while communicating with others.

Link to discussion on the Signal community forums

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    Finally

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      Now if they’d just let me run the damned client on more than one device so I can reply to messages from my tablet.

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        I’m running it on phone, tab (long ago), and desktop… What do you mean?

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